This summer is the epitome of serenity and tranquillity. Imagine yourself
lying in the field amidst the green grass, the wind that caresses your face,
the sun whose darting rays gently warm your body, and all the teeming life
surrounding you with chirpings, twitterings, murmurrings, buzzings, and songs.

How you long for an escape from daily cares to enjoy for a few fleeting moments
the peace and abandon that summer can bring about!

You are ready for a lazy day, freed at last from hectic activities, and at peace
with the world without and the world within. If there is an escape from workaday
concerns, this must be it.

Liem knows how to wrest some happy moments by simply letting himself go, lying
in the grass, perhaps chewing on a stalk of wheat, and listening to the insects
buzzing about, and the chirping crickets around him.

He looks at the deep, blue sky extending to infinity. And in a flash, his
mind flies off to some unknown horizons, lost without thought of return, into
the mysterious blue yonder!

And you feel deep down the urge to drop everything so you can wander into this
wonderful world that invites exploration and contemplation. Then do yourself a
favor by doing just that. Work will catch up with you later. But for now, catch
this magical feeling of freedom, inner peace, and happiness, that are in such
short supply in the daily crush of the materialistic world.

Upon the lush green, tender grass
I often come to laze around,
And rest my face on the paillasse
To the caress and to the sound
Of gentle sun and wind yonder,
And sink into a deep slumber.

The sweet and comfortable heat
Spreads through and through my body whole.
And I forget my woes complete
Along with all that pains my soul.

I listen to the sweet, sweet song
All those gay birds in the fields sing.
The wind-swept grasses dance along
Swaying the wheat to which they cling.
The bees all flit and buzz about,
The crickets too twitter aloud.

I let my mind wander around
To some horizons far away,
Hazy and vague and mystery-bound,
The wondrous sky o'er yonder way.